Joanna Gaines gets emotional sending her son Drake off to college...
after their lavish family trip to Saint Lucia Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.Com Published: 06:27 BST, 9 August 2024 | Updated: 06:29 BST, 9 August 2024 e-mail View comments Joanna Gaines gave her eldest child Drake Gaines a hug before sending him off to study business entrepreneurship at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, TX - which is located only 44 miles South of their Waco, TX hometown.
'Saying goodbye never gets easier,' the 46-year-old Fixer Upper star - who boasts 21.5M social media followers - captioned her emotional post on Thursday. 'Lots of love to all the parents sending their kids off to school this season.
' The 20-year-old freshman has already been recruited to be No. 77 outfielder for the baseball team Crusaders at the private Baptist university, which was ranked among the worst schools in Texas for LGTBQAI students in 2016. The UMHB Student Handbook reportedly used to prohibit homosexual behavior, and in 2015, the university was granted an exception to Title IX allowing it exclude LGBTQAI student organizations for religious reasons.
Joanna Gaines gave her eldest child Drake Gaines a hug before sending him off to study business entrepreneurship at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, TX - which is located only 44 miles South of their Waco, TX hometown: 'Saying goodbye never gets easier' Joanna and her husband Chip Gaine.